Meta's social microblogging platform has enabled a new, fundamentally important feature: the ability to look up and follow profiles from the network.

Meta’s microblogging platform and X rival, Threads, has taken another step closer to two-way connectivity to the Fediverse.

  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
    122·
    8 days ago

    Fediverse users are sceptical, so for now threads uses can only find users who willingly intact with people on threads. They’re taking a carefcareful approach.

    I assume if threads users follow fediverse users the content makes its way to their feed as normal.

      • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        8 days ago

        Oh wow. They’re taking their sweet time.

        Pretty useless then. Oh well, I’m European, and I am not aware of anyone in my network using Threads. So I can’t say I care all that much.

        • mbirthEnglish
          3·
          7 days ago

          It says “Beta Feature” after all.

    • GlasgowEnglish
      72·
      7 days ago

      I’m not tho. Wish someone would just bridge everything into one platform seamlessly and the zealots could fight it out in the background.

      • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        7 days ago

        Strong agree. Mastodon already works so that your feed won’t be filled up with shit you don’t want to see.

        On a personal level, I couldn’t care less.

        On a professional level, I want people to be able to follow me no matter which idiotic service they are using. So I’m bridging to Bluesky and I would be happy with my content being spread on Threads as well, though it doesn’t seem to attract many academic users. I have no idea who that platform is for. But if they’re interested in seeing my boring academic self-promotion, that’s cool with me.